Upholstering



No. 620,7!2 Patented Mar. 7, I899. 0. A. KEIL & J. GALLAGHER.

UPHOLSTEBING.

(Application filed may 31, 1898.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR A. KEIL AND JAMES GALLAGHER, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

UPHOLSTERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 620,712, dated March'7, 1899.

Application filed May 31, 1898- Serial No. 682,223. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, OSCAR A. KEIL and J Aims GALLAGHER, citizens of theUnited States,residin g at Grand Rapids,in the county of Kent and Stateof Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inUpholstering; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Our invention relates to improvements in upholstering; and its objectis, primarily, to more securely and conveniently attach the buttons tothe fabric and to provide the structure with certain other new anduseful features hereinafter more fully described, and particularlypointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is an enlarged detail in section, on theline 1 1 of Fig. 2, of a device embodying our invention; Fig. 2, a planview of the under side of the upper material and reinforcement with abutton attached and secured thereto by the lateral prongs; Fig. 3, areduced section of a portion of upholstered work with buttons in variousstages of process of attachment; Fig. 4, an enlarged view of a button asprepared for attachment; Fig. 5, a button with the center prongclenched, and Fig. 6 the same with all the prongs clenched as whenfinally secured in place.

Like letters refer to like parts in all of the figures.

A represents the upper or outer material, consisting usually of somesuitable cloth or leather. B is the lower or inner material, consistingof burlaps, canvas, or other suitable material. C is the tufting,consisting of curled hair, hemp, or other suitable material. E are thebuttons, located in the depressions between the tufts. Our inventionconsists in the novel means of securing these described parts in place,and consists in providing said buttons with a central prong G and two ormore lateral prongs F, arranged in a right line across the under side ofthe button. The central prong G is larger and longer than the lateralprongs and adapted to pass through both the outer and inner material andbe turned at its inner end into an eye G, through 0n the inner side ofthe reinforcements.

which is inserted a suitable continuous cord. or wire H on the innersurface of the inner material 13 and extending through an entire row ofthe buttons and securing the same. The lateral prongs are shorter andextend only through the outer material and reinforcing-pieces D beneatheach button and clenched down upon the same, whereby said reinforcementsare secured to the inner surface of the outer material. are applied byfirst securing them at proper intervals to the outer material andreinforcements by passing the prongs through the same and clenching thelateral prongs down The central prongs are then thrust through the innermaterial, the tufting put in place, and said central prongs clenched orturned around the cords or wires H. The central prong may have an eye Gfformed in its inner end, as in Fig. 5, at the outset and passed throughthe various layers of material in that form, the wire or cord beinginserted through said eye with the same result.

These buttons By the described construction the various parts are mostsecurely held in place and the structure formed with great convenienceand rapidity. The reinforcements beneath each button and said buttonsbeing secured in place directly upon the outer fabric by the lateralprongs move therewith and do not wear through the material, and thecentral prongs are securely held in place in the inner material andprevented from pulling through the same by the cords or wires H, whichlatter also serve to support the inner fabric in place, and bysecuringthe same to the frame of the article of furniture also aid insustain ing the entire upholstering in place.

WVe are aware that buttons having three integral prongs arranged intriangular position and of equal dimensions are not new. We do not claimsuch broadly.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and wish tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an article of manufacture, an uphol stering-button having a largecentral integral prong and two lateral and smaller integral prongs andarranged in a right line, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the outer and inner material on an article ofupholstery, a button having a central integral prong passing throughboth of said materials and secured thereto by said prong, and lateralintegral prongs passing through only the outer fabric and securing thebutton thereto, substantially as described.

3. In an article of upholstery, an outer and inner layer of materal, areinforcement on the inner side of the outer material, a button havinglateral prongs passing through the outer material and the reinforcementand securing the button thereto, and a central prong on said buttonpassing through the outer material, the reinforcement, and the innermate rial, and having an eye in its end, and a continuous cord or wireextending along the inner surface of the inner material and through saideye, substantially as described.

4. The herein-described construction of upholstered work consisting ofan outer and in- OSCAR A. KEIL. JAMES GALLAGHER.

Witnesses:

OMAR E. BEACH, L. V.'llIOULTON.

